Wind turbine potential

[The Woodman]

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[Dogghound]

Another issue which strikes me as an environmental consultant who works on a lot of wind turbine/farm planning proposals is the impact this could have on wildlife, in particular bats. Wind turbines should not be placed near trees/hedgerows and should have a buffer of at least 50m or more preferably 75-100m if possible. Turbines in woodland/close to trees have been known to have large negative impacts on local bat populations. It is possible that this could hinder your proposal at the planning stage, as hopefully a consultant would pick up on this and offer suitable mitigation i.e. placing the turbine in an adjacent field, away from habitat features.

[The Woodman]

Further to Dogghounds post, Eurobats publication series no 3 "Guidelines for consideration of bats in wind farm projects" makes useful reading.

An electronic version can be found here.... ISBN 978-92-95058-11-8